Now we are all warriors – in the war against waste. The waste warriors take to their boats and become ocean crusaders. There are also the waste transformers who create visual poetry from the discarded and abandoned to speak to us. Carolyn Cardinet is a French born, local and international artist. Prolific, driven and energetic, […]
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Street stories
Boundary Street
Road portrait: Boundary Street Boundary Street separated the cities of Port and South Melbourne when that boundary meant something. Boundary St is yet another straight and purposeful street heading from Crockford St towards Lorimer Street and the Yarra River. Its former connection with the River is now interrupted by the many lanes of the Westgate […]
Yarra & Bay
Waste Artists
Now we are all warriors – in the war against waste. The waste warriors take to their boats and become ocean crusaders. There are also the waste transformers who create visual poetry from the discarded and abandoned to speak to us. Carolyn Cardinet is a French born, local and international artist. Prolific, driven and energetic, […]
Waste & Recycling
Bringing the market home
When we came to Australia in 1987, we rented a house opposite the South Melbourne Market. It was nothing to do with the market, we knew nothing of it. It was just that it was affordable. From day one in Melbourne, the South Melbourne Market has been part of my life. Over time, I took […]
Urban Planning
Fishermans Bend planning update
The Fishermans Bend Review Panel ended its marathon hearings on Amendment GC81 on 22nd June – the longest running hearing in the history of Planning Panels in Victoria. Amendment GC81 is the planning amendment and suite of planning controls that seek to give effect to the Vision for Fishermans Bend adopted in September 2016. The […]
Port of Melbourne
Excluded
There is a snag in the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017. Snags – sticks, logs, trunks, trees and roots – were once a feature of the Yarra River. Snags made the River difficult to navigate and were part of the rationale for digging the Coode Canal. To facilitate and enable that massive engineering […]
PORT & SOUTH MELBOURNE
Unease in the village
Over the last twenty years Albert Park shops became ‘the village’. Albert Park has been the poster child of a successful neighbourhood shopping centre. It was the place to go for coffee long before other places developed their own coffee cultures. Its anchors over all those years have been the Albert Park Deli, the Avenue […]
FISHERMANS BEND & MONTAGUE
Fishermans Bend planning update
The Fishermans Bend Review Panel ended its marathon hearings on Amendment GC81 on 22nd June – the longest running hearing in the history of Planning Panels in Victoria. Amendment GC81 is the planning amendment and suite of planning controls that seek to give effect to the Vision for Fishermans Bend adopted in September 2016. The […]
DOCKLANDS
The last weekend in July
The last weekend in July is Open House Melbourne and National Tree Day – a clash or a convergence of the built and the natural environment? A convergence for me at the Banksia apartments in Docklands where tours were being offered. There were queues and time was limited so I exploreed around the ground level. […]